I don't think Matt has offered any evidence.

The application test feels like a scam, particularly when writing samples are already available and the work is contract.

If one were obligating company resources to support an employe for a specific period of time, I could understand a thorough evaluation period; but that is not the case.

If the company is honest it should either accept previously published writing samples or pay the potential employee for the application work done.

It is as simple as that.

Hi DavidBeefArms: I hire for Stripes39 and I can assure you the jobs are real and we treat our freelance writing partners with integrity. It is a partnership which has proven mutually beneficial. So in short, your supposition is entirely incorrect. On light background: we have a very specific need for talented writers. Our success with finding what we want stems from our experience which has affirmed our convictions that we must set a high bar for writers and we must continually look for them anywhere they live. The test specifically measures if the bar is met. We realize this is not for everyone and not everyone chooses to take our test. But we are for real and we treat our freelance partners with integrity. If you want to take this one offline and have a further dialog about your specific situation please feel free to ask for Matt @ [email protected] and I'll send you my stripes39 email and phone number, through which we can talk further. Otherwise, I would really appreciate it if you could remove your post like you said you would if you validated, "this isn't fake". Thanks and have a great day! -Matt

This place is a scam! I have proof that they do indeed use your samples for their business. Don't bother!

I also got a next-day response. Definitely looked like an automatic-response email with my name plugged in. Wanted me to write an article about pursuing an online PhD in psychology. Puh-lease! I am not going to spend the time researching that for free! If my writing samples weren't enough for you (I submitted a paper that got me into all the grad schools for which I applied.) then I'm not wasting my time. It really does seem like a scam. They say 800 people will take the test for this freelance position and only 50 will get the post. Sounds like 800 free articles for Stripes39!

This is an Internet Content and Marketing company that I believe to be scamming writers as a legitimate freelance writing job. Now I'm not positive about this, and if I'm wrong I'll talk this down, but I'm pretty sure they're scamming writers. They have thier job ad continously posted all over the country week after week. That's the first sign secondly. Secondly, I applied for a job with them and got a reply back almost instantly. Which is the second major sign that this job might be bullsh#t. Because that never happens.

So when they got back to me they gave me this really long and drawn out writing practice test that would have equaled $60-$80 of work. They wanted two long ass 800 and 600 essays, which is completely unreasonable and ridicilous making someone applying for a job do that much work just for the application. Also, right in the email they say they will let you know if you got the job within 24 hours.

Well needless to say I never heard back from them. I even emailed the guy who emailed me back at first no problem when I had a question, now he won't return my email. If you apply for a job with this company and you get some 4 page ridicilous writing application, they are most likely just going to keep your work, possibly rephrase some of it and pass it off as thier own. That way they don't have to pay actual writers for thier hard work, they can just trick them into writing it for free.

If this isn't fake i'll take this down, but people like this make me sick and don't think I won't ever be out in Seattle some time soon and come out and see whats going on and at least get my $60-$80 in time I wasted writing your stupid application bullsh#t...I'm out!!!

No problem. At my3cents we are trained not to nitpick ones grammar, unless it interferes with what the word/sentence/phrase intended. Thank you for this insightful review.